Essays on Resistance To Change

Perrier, an iconic brand in the world of mineral water, started to experience some problems the year after it great success of 1989. The previous year it had remarkably sold 1.2 billion bottles of mineral water, almost half to the population in the United States. The reason for their remarkable sale can be attributed to the absence of potential competitors in the market. The people had no choice, and therefore, they had to buy Perrier’s bottled water. However, in the year 1990, a minute quantity of benzene detected in the bottle reduced its sale by almost fifty percent ( ...

Creating change in any organization might seem like an insurmountable task given that human beings are usually resistant to change. But is that really true? A lot of employees, as normal workers, in middle and upper management actually embrace change if only they can be convinced of its validity and the manner in which it affects their best interests in a positive manner. No one likes to change anything that seems to working perfectly, right? That's what the employees of the bottled mineral-water company Perrier have been struggling to cope with for a number of years after the organization ...

Identifying the Key elements of the Resistance to Change

The reasons for people resisting change differ depending on interests and anticipation for changes. Parochial self-interest indicates that workers are more concerned with the change implications for themselves (Housel & Marian, 2011). Personal interests are considered rather than the impact of changes to business success. Regarding the case study, the union resists the changes by Nestle. The proposal by Nestle for 15 percent workforce cut was essential for organizations to realize the changes. The response by CGT shows complete resistance to change as the union safeguard the interest of employees. The firm positions by both management and union influences initiated ...

Introduction

Culture is the shared traditions, norms, values, arts, and the history shared by a certain group of people, and which is usually passed from one generation to another. These cultures may influence how these people access services and resources from professionals. Culture changes how people view the world and the role they play in the world. Culture shapes personal and group values and attitudes. This also includes perceptions regarding themselves their beliefs, myths and misconceptions (Murtha & O'Connor, 2011). Understanding culture helps professionals to avoid typecasts and any biases that may arise in their line of duty and may undermine ...

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Introduction

Change is a process that impacts all organizations. As observed by management expert, Kurt Lewin, “group life is never without change, merely differences in the amount and type of change exist” (Burnes, 2004, p. 981). Most change initiatives, however, fails because of the tendency of people to resist change. People, according to management experts, fear change and so they tend to revert back to old ideas and practices even if the change is for the better. This tendency of the individuals to resist change affects the organization as a whole. Also, the longer the ...

Workplace: Case of BMW

BMW BMW is considered as one of the most sustainable companies in the world. It is due to the fact that the company outperformed its peers in the automobile industry through corporate social responsibility activities and organizational endeavors. The company fulfilled its responsibilities in an effective manner like investments in the innovation, low level of turnover among employees and low ration among salary of CEO to the average employee (Luxury Daily, 2016). In other words, the company invests in sustainable efforts to achieve success (Dyllick & Hockerts, 2002). Hence, it is one of the ideal companies to work on the ...

What is Organizational Development?

Within the business world today there are many terms for the many different processes that can be used by organizations in order to bring about organizational success. One such term is organizational development. Let us examine organizational development from two different definitions to include the standard and the new definition of the term.

Old Standard Definition of Organizational Development

The very natures of organizations today as well as the needs of the organizations are changing intensely. Organizational development must occur in order to meet these changing needs of the business. While there are several definitions to this term, the standard definition was created in 1969 ...

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The Safe Havens of Global Cities In his article, “The West’s Major Cities are a Bulwark Against the Tide of Right-Wing Nationalism,” Ishaan Tharoor writes about the celebration in London of the Battle of Cable Street, which was a protest that had various groups coming together to prevent a group of fascists from marching over eighty years ago (Tharoor). It was a time when there was a dangerous level of hatred and anger directed at the Jewish communities in Europe (Tharoor). Indeed, the events taking place at the time of those original Cable Street protests, occurred in ...

Article Critique: Successful Change Management Involves Employees

Summary of the Article and Audience Figure 1: Successful Change Management happens at Bottom Source: Rick (2014) It is argued that successful change management in the organization depends on the fact that people are required to be informed about change in terms of new structures, policies and mergers. The main reason is that changes lead to development of new systems and environments. Hence, the employees are able to needed to be aligned with the new environment and system through proper communication. It is key a strategy to communicate a compelling change story to employees to implement change successfully by ...

Assignment 4: Resistance and Communication

Introduction Yahoo has had a change in management, and since the takeover by Marissa Mayer as the CEO. It applied stack ranking performance review. The employees collude among themselves to gain proper assessment, thereby risking the loss of competent staff members. The horse trading needs to be eliminated by changing this tool and implementing a new method. The resistance to change leads to increased financial losses in an organization as well as to the demoralization of individuals to apply new ideas in the future of the company. The resistance to change poses the largest roadblock to the success of ...

The company (TinD) uses many information systems that make its core. The three key ISs include Jidoka, Poke Yoke and T-WINS LS in relation to the identified situation. Jidoka’s purpose is to stop in a safely manner in case of normal processing. In addition, it enables the machine to detect the issue and stops automatically through andon (Toyota Motor Corporation, 2016). Moreover, the purpose of the Poka Yoke is to make issues visible and act as fuel for the Kaizen Teian (Obara & Wilburn, 2012). On the other hand, T-WINS LS helps to manage warehouse and logistics centers of ...

Executive summary

This report is an analysis of the performance of Kodak over time since its inception. The report finds that the dismal performance of Kodak is largely as a result of the poor leadership elected to lead the company. The report traces the failures of the company to the hierarchical and toxic leadership styles that saw the company lag behind in joining the competitors in the migration to digital photography. The report concludes by highlighting the specific failures of leadership that cost the company a fortune had it transformed into digital promptly. The report recommends a series of actions to ...

Introduction

Sustaining a business can be a challenging task especially during the times when it needs to change its strategies or adopt new approached. That is why, it is important that business owners must be open to any forms of business model changes in order to sustain the profitability and save the business itself. Thus, changing the model of the business can be done through development of short-term change and long-term change. The purpose of this study is to present two change models that are applicable for both short and long-term changes of Sea Treasure, a small group of retails ...

Introduction

Organizations refer to entities or enterprises with distinct goals and aspirations, which operate within strict definitions or boundaries (Senior, 2002). In this perspective, organizational change is a phenomenon that occurs in every organization with a wide operation base. However, the magnitude of change is dependent on the size of the organization or the complexity of operations that the company or an organization engages in, either in products or customers. Moreover, organizational change can also be planned by the organization or unplanned. Unplanned organizational change is a result of external and internal forces that lead to the change of operations ...

Post Crisis Change Management in Business Organizations

Business Organizations are often confronted by situations which induce their owners to re- examine their policies and processes. These situations are termed as crisis and needs reformulation of organizational processes, in absence of which the existence of the organization may be threatened. These situations may erupt from failure to anticipate the internal and external consequences from economic, political, ethical and technological changes related to organizational activities. Even if they are anticipated, crisis may not be altogether averted; only it helps in formulating contingency plans that are used to address post crisis situation and calls for initiating changes in the ...

Competition is a major factor that creates a necessity for change. Businesses can be forced to change their strategies when new competitors enter the market. Such change is necessary to avoid losing customers to the new competitor. Organizations can also be forced to change because of technological advancements. The development of new technology can render some business processes and practices obsolete, which forces the business to change to keep up with its competitors (Iveroth & Hallencreutz, 2015). Another major factor that leads to the necessity for change is the enactment of changes in government regulations. Governments can mandate businesses to ...

Introduction

Change management is a term that has several definitions; the term does not contain any definite explanation. According to some authors, change management is a technique for facilitating the implementation of complicated processes in a very organized way that leads organizations towards the contribution into the organization. ElMaraghy (2011), in his book, defined change management as a redesigning of the structure of procedure with the aim of coping up with internal and external organizational changes. It is a process of constantly renewing the structure, direction, and capabilities of organization with the purpose of serving the ever-changing needs of internal ...

Executive Summary

The background for this paper is the analysis of the "Large Technology Company" referred to as LTC hereafter. The paper looks at the LTC's requirements for an ERP system recommends a suitable ERP solution for the company. Due to the growing complexity of the business environment in most industries and the increased globalization and the resulting internationalization, managing and utilizing information effectively is very important for the success of modern companies. Managing the whole operations requires IS that can integrate both external and internal information into readily available and usable forms. ERP systems are being used by many companies ...

All people worldwide watch TV, but not everyone enjoys watching regular TV with channels that offer programs at specific time on non-portable screens with old fashioned remote controls. Nowadays Internet TV, which is personalized and available at any time of the day, is replacing regular TV experience. The new era of Internet TV looks very perspective, flexible and big around the world. People's tastes are broad and the Internet provides a wide variety of interests today and is even able to meet everybody’s needs based upon individual users' tastes. Today being one of the leading firms of the ...

Executive Summary

Organizational change is the best approach for Wengart to take if it is to eliminate customers’ complaints and create a motivated workplace environment. In spite of the fact that its leaders seem to disapprove the ability of TQM model to create desired changes, it is imperative that all managers understand that one of the essential qualities of leaders is the ability to transform theoretical knowledge into practice through critical thinking. Kotter’s eight stage change model, in this case, improves the ability of every stakeholder to act accordingly since the model provides clear guidelines on how Wengart could develop ...

Business to Consumer (B2C) E-Commerce

Business to Consumer (B2C) E-Commerce One of the types of e-commerce is the B2C e-commerce. It is the most developed form in the e-commerce. It refers to the applications that offer an interface from businesses to the consumers directly. The example of the application of B2C is the retail website presenting the business’s products and services that can be sold to consumers or purchase by consumers directly like www.amazom.com (Sun & Finnie, 2003).

B2C involves various elements like cataloguing, planning of orders and generation, estimation of costs and pricing, fulfillment of order and delivery, maintenance of products, category management ...

Introduction

Definition Change is necessary for the survival of any organization. As time passes, technology advances, peoples’ attitudes and values change, laws and political control change, and there is the need for an organization to keep up with these changes as well. Change management is the way people deal with these changes. In an organization, change management includes the definition of the new norms, talking to the stakeholders about the design of specific changes, and planning and implementing the transition to a new business process or organizational structure (Xiongwei, 2009). Even though it is necessary for organizations to improve some ...

Introduction

Change is inevitable within the organizations. In essence, the organizations in the contemporary competitive environment are required to undergo changes so as to remain competitive. In other words, change is imperative for the organizations because it would be possible for them to lose their competitive advantages devoid of it. Alkaya and Hepaktan (2003) describe change as a response to some considerable opportunity or threat that arise out of the organization. It is imperative to note that change takes place when the organizations make a transition from their present state to some anticipated future state. The task of managing change ...

Part 1

Milton manufacturing is facing a number of issues that include: Inaccurate costing of tables and chairs, there is an equal allocation of overheads to chairs and tables resulting in the chairs being allocated more than a fair share of the overheads while the tables under absorb overheads. Resistance to change, Mr. Smith is reluctant to change the costing techniques arguing that they have traditionally allocated overheads to tables and chairs equally. The organization has a closed climate where employees are not able to freely communicate. For instance, Mr. Smith tends to dominate the meeting and members are afraid of ...

Introduction

The paper will review contemporary management practice involving a case study of one UK’s power and energy Services Company named Energy Co. One topic from HRO 383 curriculum that is related to the contents of the case is the company structure. The thing that relates this topic to the content of the case is the company’s leadership hierarchy that the case discusses. Therefore, the mentioned issue of staff resistance towards change results from the way the leadership of this company approaches the change process. The case study indicated the Energy Co. has been through a process of ...

When I was a teenager, I underwent a personal change. The process of changing myself was a difficult road to walk. I had to overcome a lot of internal reluctance to accomplish the changes that I needed to make. Furthermore, this changing process is a continuous one, and to this day I am still trying to maintain the changes that I made when I was fourteen years old. To be successful in this endeavor, on a daily basis, I have to overcome my internal resistance to the habits and patterns of thought that I established years ago. Until I ...

Managing Change

Introduction Organizational change has become a significant feature in today’s business environment. According to Burke (2008), the need for change and the demand for organizations to adapt and modify their operations have intensified. In fact, the most prevalent challenge in many organizations has been the need to cope with the rapid change. In a recent study conducted by leadershipIQ.com, a failure to manage the organizational change is one of the top reasons for termination of jobs for many managers (Murphy 2015, para 1). This failure is attributed to the managers’ inability to motivate employees, especially by not articulating ...

People who are holding positions in a public office should definitely know the importance of being able to think critically and creatively—that is, with public interest in mind. An example of a situation wherein this ability to think critically and creatively with the interest of the public in mind would be when a policymaker pushes for reforms in the real estate sector. The latest financial crises experienced not only in the United States but other developed and developing countries were the result of naivety. There was the assumption that the value of real estate and other asset classes ...

Integrative Research Project

Abstract This research project aims to establish how the organization can increase its competitive advantage by requiring supply chain vendors to meet ENOC’s standards. A qualitative research methodology was used, and the research design is to carry out semi-structured interviews over the telephone. The semi-structured interview allowed interviewees to expand on their thoughts and experiences while the researcher guides the conversation to say on the topic. Interviews were performed over the telephone with employees at ENOC and employs with ENOC’s supply chain vendors to collect data. The data analysis was carried out by evaluating the results of ...

The U.S army has for a long time used the Standard Army Retail Supply System (SARR) in its logistical planning. Stakeholders have, however chosen to make changes, with the army now employing the Global Combat Support System-Army (GCSS-Army) for its logistical and supply needs. This is a considerable change to the organization and possesses a challenge as to how the change can be managed effectively. This paper looks into the best possible approaches for the U.S army when adopting this change in logistics and supply. The U.S Army reports to the department of defense. The army is organized into ...

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Introduction

2.1. Prophet Muhammad 2.2. Self evaluation 2.3. My attitudes toward different challenges 2.4. FEWA’s desired future leadership competencies 3. Task 2 3.1. Jack Welch/former CEO of GE Company 3.1.1. Jack Welch leadership strategy 3.1.2. Jack Welch leadership style 3.1.3. Jack Welch strengths and areas of development 3.2. “Change plan” 3.2.1. Implementation plan for the change plan 3.2.2. Stakeholders’ involvement in the change. 3.2.3. Strategy for managing resistance to change 4.1. SWOT analysis. 4.2. Individual Development Plan (IDP) 5. Conclusion 6. References 7. Appendix

Introduction

Leadership is one of the significant factors ...

Business Plan Proposal

Business Identification of Problem Poor publicity can affect a wonderful product and can lead to an uphill battle getting back into good standing with your customers, community, employees and stakeholders. Competent leaders are a necessity to rally teammates in tough times, even though acquiring and retention of qualified individuals may pose to be even more of a struggle. Recently, Transurban, the company that designs and operates the Express Lanes on I-495, I-95, and I-395, have taken on some bad publicity with civil lawsuits, deaths on the Express Lanes, back-ups on the lanes that are a result of user accidents ...

Abstract

Globalization and the vaiety of external factors, affecting change management transformed the role of Human Resource Development (HRM) from facilitator to change leader and highlighted the importance of emotional intelligence on individual and group levels within the organizations (Yaeger and Sorensen, 2009).

Human Resource Management

Q1: How would you define OD and its relationship to HRD? Swanson and Elwood (2009) argue that the fundamental role of OD in a given organization was to bring to light incremental change. Traditional OD focuses on planned incremental change with smaller scope and scale within the company. OD as compared to the change management initiatives in ...

Introduction

Training and development is a major function that varied human resource managers have to take seriously to ensure that employees are influenced to utilize the skills learnt. It is imperative to consider the most effective training methods such as the blended training methods that incorporate on job training and the technological based training methods. While on job training methods involve training employees on various functional aspects including wash fits, pant fits and dry cleaning, technological methods are aimed at improving flexibility of training. It is also strategic to consider the learning principles including motivational factors, self-efficacy and adult learning ...

Introduction

Training and development is a major function that varied human resource managers have to take seriously to ensure that employees are influenced to utilize the skills learnt. It is imperative to consider the most effective training methods such as the blended training methods that incorporate on job training and the technological based training methods. While on job training methods involve training employees on various functional aspects including wash fits, pant fits and dry cleaning, technological methods are aimed at improving flexibility of training. It is also strategic to consider the learning principles including motivational factors, self-efficacy and adult learning ...

Business

Research Paper: Literature review Devising business models that meet the customers’ demands, satisfy regulatory agencies and carrying out business with sustainable methods to alleviate climate change and other environmental problems as much as possible (Boons et al., 2013; Lee & Casalegno, 2010). The types of methodologies addressed here have been implemented at ENOC or in the UK energy sector. At the heart of the management methods is customer satisfaction. Emiratisation, customer satisfaction and operational theory are seen as the potential answer to meeting new management milestones for Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC). Emiratisation is a UAE government initiative to reach ...

Innovation and management of change are very important aspects of strategic management. It is vital to take a look at different perspectives of change management

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Question 1: Explain van de ven poole models and terminology and describe two of change management theories from the curriculum?

Van de Ven and Poole made important contributions in change management. The Life cycle theory and the Dialectical theory are of great significance in organizations. Considering the Life cycle theory it is worth indicating that the underlying principle of this theory is that “change is imminent: that is, the developing entity has within it ...

Introduction

Scapens takes us through his 35 years of research in management accounting, initially starting his research in financial accounting where he majored in inflation accounting. Throughout the years, Scapens together with others has been involved in extensive research in this subject. Together with Burns, Scapens developed the commonly known as the Burns and Scapens framework of management accounting change that explains the reasoning for the slow change process in the management accounting processes.

In the late 90’sThe Chartered Institute of Management Accountants commissioned Scapens to conduct some research on the resistance to change by the management ...

Abstract

The implementation of new working processes that include the adaptation and the use of new technology can be challenging and troublesome. The nursing activity is no exception, as resistance to change often impedes the effective integration of new technologies in the nurses activity. The improper management of the resistance to change is actually the cause for which many institutions and organizations have failed to integrate and install change. The executive positions in the nursing facility’s administrations are responsible for changing the staff’s perception about new technologies. The case of the Veteran’s Affairs facility illustrates how Vocera ...

Introduction

With the improvement in technology, it has become imperative for organizations to incorporate modern technology in their processes. In order to successfully introduce technology, organizations need to consider a number of factors. This paper explains how the organization can apply to purchase and adopt technology. These topics include communication change, contingent leadership, agile technology, planned vs. emergent change, resistance to change as well as the role of IT people in business.

- Communication change

The introduction of technology will affect almost all business processes and individuals in the organization. Therefore, a company must communicate such changes with the people affected. According to Proctor and ...

Part B

As it is mentioned in Part A of the assignment, the communication of organizational change in Twitter is going to be communicated through the delivery of oral presentations, supported by visual data, such as diagrams and slides with the most important statements. Firstly, the change manager in charge with conducting the organizational change will deliver oral presentation to the head of departments, emphasizing the need for change and engaging employees into change-related communication. Thereafter, using the script of oral presentation by the change manager, head of company’s departments will supplement it with factual data, concerning particular departments of ...

High Costs of Cancer Medications

In this paper, the plan of action to be followed in addressing the problem of high costs of cancer medications will be outlined and its components described. The following aspects will also be addressed in the paper, my personal role in the plan of action, anticipated barriers and contingency measures for addressing these barriers, and the role of technology in budgeting and nursing management contingent to the plan.

Plan of Action

Based on the findings of the literature review and interviews of two senior hospital administrators, the following measures for addressing the problem of ever-escalating costs of cancer care will be instituted:

Clinical Care Pathways

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Individual Resistance to Organizational Change

Introduction Effective and efficient change management is critical to the continued organizational success. Initiation and effective management of planned organizational changes remains one of the most important aspects of strategic management, but despite the existence of a wealth of empirical and theoretical information on organizational change, the rate of success for such initiatives remains dismal. According to Kotter (2007), upwards of 80% of organizational change initiatives end in failure, with an estimated 50% of such plans collapsing before the actual implementation stage. Erwin & Garman (2010) observes that less than 38% of planned organizational change initiatives were successful, while only ...

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Organizational Description Teen Challenge New England and New Jersey, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) charitable non-profit organization. They provide youth, adults, and families with an effective and comprehensive Christian faith-based solution to drug, alcohol, and other life-controlling problems in order to become productive members of society. Their program is long-term and residential. They are privately supported and depend on the faithfulness of individuals, churches, businesses, and foundations. Their corporate headquarters are located in Brockton, Massachusetts and they have eight campuses located throughout New England and New Jersey. According to a recent audit, over 80% of all revenue is ...

1. Introduction Cross-border trade and travel have been increasing at enhanced rate over the last few decades because business units have identified the necessity of international co-operation in strengthening their financial growth and industry recognition. In this context, multinational companies are striving to improve their competitiveness in the global marketplace by focusing specifically on international expansion. Realising the further growth opportunities in the international market environment, MasterCard went public in May 2008. As a result of this change, the company’s 4,600 employees worldwide became exposed to a new way of doing things. In this circumstance, the firm’s ...

2.1 Effective Change Management 12 2.2 Structural 13 2.3 People-Centered 14 2.4 Process-Oriented 15 2.5 Strategy-Oriented 15 2.6 Summary 16

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Introduction What is change management and how does it relate to operational efficiency? When change is introduced to an organization, management itself on various levels normally decides on altering how operations and related work is practiced. The main categories of change management are organizational structure, job descriptions, operational systems, and processes. Change management varies from project management, where the former is defined as a process associated with the tools and techniques to regulate any ...

Abstract

A change management plan is created for a possible information technology (IT) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) upgrade at a high-level medical technology firm. These changes are the result of a recent downturn in employee morale and productivity stemming from a recent economic recession. However, the upgrade is intended to provide a suitable means for productivity to be further streamlined and increase worker morale, using a number of change management strategies to implement the change. Resistance to change is addressed, and strategies include Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model, Lewin’s change model, the technology acceptance model, and others. The result is a successful and soundly-created change ...

Introduction

The past century has been marked by tons of discoveries made in numerous fields such as technology, science, and engineering. One of the fields where the biggest leaps and breakthroughs have been made within that long period of time was in the field of genetic engineering. Ever since the human genome project was first conceptualized, genetic engineers and scientists knew that they are about to discover a lot of things just by simply sticking to what they are going to learn from the human genome project and in studying more modern genetic engineering concepts such as cloning and even stem ...

Problem Outline

Cox’s Container Company (CCC) is a medium size manufacturing company that produces both large and small containers. In the last few years, the company’s profitability has gone down due to increased competition from similar companies that have reduced CCC profit margins. CCC needs to change its culture and structure if it is to remain profitable and therein lays the problem. The employees are not willing to implement the new changes and thus they are not cooperating. The new management team has not introduced the changes well since it has not consulted any of the employees. There has ...

Abstract

Transferring from one organization to another is not so much different from shifting from one industry to another. Both decisions can be associated with tremendous changes, both environmentally and habitually, that an individual has to overcome. There can be many reasons why an individual—which is more often than not a company employee looking for a greener or a more organized pasture, transfers from one organization to another. Some of the most common reasons behind such big decision include but are not limited to social factors (e.g. employees do not get along well with other employees), economic factors (e.g. employee salary is ...

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Executive Summary

The current discourse presents an analysis of the problems encountered by Newlands, a hospital located Ireland. Case facts revealed that Newlands’ staff had been accustomed to the way they do things and are reported to exhibit reluctance to change. However, recent developments in the external environment, including the Regional Health Board’s requirement for level 4 qualification necessitate urgent improvements. As such, through the request of the CEO and the Board of Directors, the report details the problem encountered, the alternative courses of action, as well as the recommended ...

Literature Review:Resistance to Change

Literature Review: Resistance to Change Introduction This literature review covers three peer-reviewed articles concerning organizational change. The Mento et al. paper (2002) – intended as a guidance document for individuals leading such a change process – draws on three theoretical models of the organizational change process to produce a framework that also takes into account the actual change process existing in a major company. The Barnard & Stoll paper (2010) is itself a literature review, drawing on available evidence to look at the change management process. That paper also looks at existing research on sustainable change and concludes with suggested options for further research. Beer ...

Change management plays an important role in the modern business environment. Its importance is increasing simultaneously with the technology, science and business processes development. Every organization that has been operating for many years experiences changes. Change management is a transitioning of teams, individuals and organizations to a preferred future state. The organizations that are willing to implement changes may prefer to use one of the change models suggested by the scientists. For example, they may choose Lewin’s change model or Hammer’s business process reengineering model. The researcher Lewin suggests the model that includes three phases of organizations’ transformation. ...

This paper attempts to describe the change management initiatives required at PepsiCo USA which has lost considerable market share in core North American markets against the major competitor Coca Cola Beverages. The researcher has extensive knowledge about management style, culture and marketing practices about PepsiCo, which will be used in identifying the need of HR change at the global beverage giant. However, it should be noted that the researcher will be using most of the insights about the company gained during 2012 – 2013 as a result of work project. The paper starts with a brief description of PepsiCo in terms of ...

Introduction

Technology is playing a crucial role in businesses today. With many business challenges that have been brought about by globalization and competition, there has been the call to leverage on technology to solve most of the problems that are faced by businesses today. The ability to share information and have different departments communicating is one of the goals that many companies seek to achieve. There is a need to have communications between departments and have ways in which the different departments can share resources in a secure manner. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have proved to be the most sought-after solutions that ...

CC1: Variables in the five management systems of the experiment and their Relations

The experiment that was carried out displayed different variables, and they include the first system which is traditional management that entails not adopting new ideas and instead the system continues with the old ways of doing things without having the employees participate. The variable in this case is the experience of the people working in the organization who repetitively tackles the same activities over time and therefore perfecting in them. The experience of the people in this case links up with program IV which provides the job satisfaction that has the employees concentrating on their jobs without the need ...

Change is a common phenomenon and an essential part of human life. Change affects the survival and growth of an organization in terms of time, duty, work, pay, technology, structure, authority-responsibility and many others. It helps to adjust with the forces of the external environment. Since the environment of business is dynamic, it is vital for organizations to be dynamic by identifying, accepting and implementing changes at the right time . Change refers to the creation of difference or imbalance in the existent pattern of dealing at work. It is a base for growth and development as it offers plenty of opportunities. ...

Management

Crowdsourcing of strategic plans is a new concept that serves to be an out of the box solution to aligning an organization to strategic goals and towards obtaining fresh inputs while deciding the strategic direction and organization has to take.

Crowdsourcing for All Organizations

Crowdsourcing of strategic plans is not a formula for all organizations to adopt. Organizations like Wikimedia, whose existence is based on “collaborative content creation” (Gast and Zanini, 2012) are natural choices for crowdsourcing of strategy. If an organization is lacking in internal democracy, it would be difficult to obtain views on strategic direction. Employees would desist from voicing their opinions on ...

Problem

Although the addition of new equipment comes with a myriad of benefits, employees’ resistance to change may make the organization not to realize the benefits of the equipment. Naturally, people are hesitant to embrace change. This aspect of resistance from employees in an organization is quite pervasive and hinders an organization from realizing the potential benefits associated with embracing change. The fact that technology is fast changing makes organizational change inevitable. As such, different organizations are on the verge of changing their technology system in order to remain competitive. The problem, however, is the employees’ resistance to change viewing it ...

Management

Introduction The oil and gas sector of the United States of America supplies around 65 percent of U.S. energy. This sector includes petroleum refining and gas and oil extraction industry. Globally, the United States of America accounts for more than 500,000 producing wells for petroleum and has around 4000 natural gas and oil platforms. It is the third largest producer of petroleum in the world. In total, this country has around 144 refineries which produce crude oil of more than 17 million barrels daily (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency). There have been several factors like alternative fuels, ...